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friday is for business Alcott optimistic HAMILTON CP George Aucott has maintained his op timism despite the massive recall Of radial tires that has struck blow to the profit hopes of Firestone in Canada and the UnitedStates Aucott president of Firestone Canada Inc expressed confidence about the longterm prospects of the company although he admits the outlook for this year is not bright because of the recall The voluntary recall came after several accidents alleged to have been caused by defects in the 500 series tires produced in 1975 and 1976 It could cost the parent Firestone Tire and Rubber Co of Akron Ohio $200 million and the Canadian operation $23 million We feel very strongly that once we have the effects of all the publicity about the 500 tire behind us we can look confidently to the future Aucott said in recent in terView Production passes $bilion TORONTO CP Domestic production of aviation products passed the billiondollar mark for the first time in 1977 and advanced to $13 billion in 1978 research report shows The report prepared for Cana dian Aviation magazine by the MacleanHunter Research Bureau also shows that the value of exports increased 28 per cent in 1978 to $850 million The value of imports which reached record $600 million in 1975 fell to $330 million in the following year and recovered slightly to $355 million in 1977 In 1978 they increased to $530 million The import situation reflected the impact of 10percent excise tax on imports of private aircraft the postponement by airlines of heavy jet purchases and the decline in the Canadian dollar Swedish tennis star Biorn Borg was threatened with death sentence on this poster mailed anonymously to the Swedish news agency TT Thursday The poster says its made by the italian Red Brigades terrorists group On the poster is photo of Borg in an israeli uniform taken during his visit to israel last fall AP Photo Tennis star Bjorgs life threatened STOCKHOLM AP Swedish tennis star Bjorn Borg upset by the national news medias disclosure of death threat decided Thursday to quit playing in Sweden this year The usually cool Borg has been involved in several conflicts with the Swedish press over the years and only last year he agreed on reconciliation with the Swedish news media Girl slain set afire PHILADELPHIA AP nineyearOld girl was sexually assaulted strangled and set afire after she wandered or was lured away from her elementary school police said Firefighters found the body of Rochelle Grham thirdfloor bedroom of an abandoned house Thursday Her body was covered with pillows that been Ignited Spanish election over MADRID Reutert The ruling Democratic Centre Union party tUCI beat the opposition Socialist Workers party PSOE in Spains second general election since the death of Gen Francisco Franco in 1975 but the result left the big party power balance intact Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa uoting early today from almost efinitive results said Prime Minister Adolfo Suarezs centralists won about 170 seats in the Congress the key lower house of parliament against about 116 for the PSOE Lamontagne gets laughs OTTAWA CP Opposition politicians laughed and hooted in the Commons on Thursday when PostmasterGeneral Gilles Lamontagne said 97 per cent of letters are delivered within two days of being mailed David Orlikow NDPWinnipeg North Centre had complained that many letters take four or five days to reach their destinations Tickets sold out Wendy Hicks director of The Pajama Game has announced that tickets for the Saturday evening performance of the musical have been sold out Tickets are still available for the Satur day matinee at pm and for tonights per formance at pm Tickets are $350 spokesman for the Earlier Thursday several members of the media received letter claiming to be sent by the Italian terrorist gang the Red Brigades saying it had sentenced him to death Borg is reported to have shrugged it oil when informed about the threat but when he saw the Swedish newspapers he became upset said his manager Lennart Bergelin Speaks about love Barrie social worker will speak in Brampton churches today as part of the World Day of Prayer activities Margaret Kelly specialist in marriage and family counselling will talk about love and children in keeping with this Intcrna tional Year of the Child she said Ms Kelly speaks at the First Baptist Church and St Marys Roman atholic hurch both of Brampton Rights probe asked TORONTO lCIi The ministry of labor has asked the Ontario Human Rights Commission to look into the case of Toronto legal secretary who was fired Tuesday for refusing to get her boss at car licence sticker Commission lawyers are studying the Ontario Human Rights ode to determine if there are grounds on which they can act commission said Thursday The commission has already interviewed Brenda Miskiminin 22 who was fired from her $250aweek job for refusing to stand in long lines to buy car licence stickers for lawyer Franz Bowman another lawfirm partner and for their wives weather Cloudy with sunny periods today Mild highs to Lows overnight to Saturday sunny with increas ing cloudiness later in the day Milder with Increasing southerly winds Highs to You day isnt complete without The Examiner Call 7266539 for home delivery Canada US i8 others Nations agree to cut back on oil use PARIS AP Canada the United States and18 other leading industrial countries have agreed to reduce Oil consumption by five per cent to Offset the shortfall of Iranian oil the International Energy Agency IEA announc ed today The IEAs 20 members agreed unanimously on the need to take firm prompt and co ordinated action Chairman Niels Ersboll of Denmark told news conference after two day meeting He said the Oil supply situation was suffi 115th your No 52 Friday March 1919 ciently serious for prompt action but that it had not reached the point at which the organizations mandatory emergency shar ing plan would have to be implemented It is vital for action to be taken now when there is still time and in order to prevent deterioration of the situation Ersboll said The IEA has left policy decisions on how to achieve the fivepercent reduction to in dividual members he said adding But we expect contributions from individual members tobesimilar In Tokyo officials said before the action Per Copy was announced that they believed Japan can meet the target with an energy conservation program it adopted last month The program calls on government ministries and agencies to lower room temperatures two degrees and to cut the use of cars by 20 per cent The planned fivepercent reduction two million barrels of oil day compares with an estimated fourpercent shortfall due to the Iranian cutoff which has been compensated in part by increased production by other Per sian Gulf states and use of stockpiles in con sumer countries Ersboll said the IEA also informed the ma jor international oil companies that available supplies must be distributed fairly to all members as well as to nonIEA members and especially to developing countries The IEA membership which rose to 20 on Thursday with the admission of Australia in cludes all the leading nonComm nist in dustrialized countries except France France chose not to join when the IEA was established in 1974 because it saw the organization as antagonistic to oil producers Carrier Home Delivery 90° Weekly the examiner serving barrie and simcoe county new Soviet warning to China MOSCOW AP Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev called on Thina today to halt im mediater its invasion of Vietnam and withdraw its troops to the last soldier In what Western analysts saw as surpris ineg moderate speech Brezhnev did not go beyond IZdayold Kremlin statement issued the day after the fighting started In remarks prepared for delivery in television address be repeated that the Soth Union will honor its treaty obligations to llanoi but gave no indication of what steps might be taken beyond expressions of sup port There had been speculation that Brezhnev might call for volunteers to join the Viet namese in the border war with Thina but he made no reference to any such support The 72yearold Soviet leader said he hopes to meet with IS President Carter to sign strategic arms limitation treaty in the near future We also expect to discuss number Of questions pertaining to the further develop ment of SovietAmerican relations the con solidation of detente and the strengthening of universal peace he said FIRST ENTION It was the first mention by the Soviet Union of desire for summit meeting since the opening of hinesc diplomatic relations and the visit to Washington of Chinese Vice Premier Tcng Ilsiao ping Brezhnev also proposed nonaggression pact among the 33 participants III the 1975 llelinski accords the European countries plus anada and the Thomson bids for The Bay TORONTO IPi The Thomson family made surprise Sass 2iiiillion offer Thursday to buy controlling interest in Hudsons Bay the giant Viinnitwgbased retailer that recently bought Simpsons Ltd the depart ment store chain Hudsons Bay spokesmans first reaction to the takeover bid was It came like bolt out of the blue But Kenneth Thomson whose father Lord Roy Ihomson amassed fortune in newspaiwrs publishing broadcasting travel anti oil businesses in Britain and North America before his death in 1976 said in an interview that the offer had been under con sideration for some time He said the family wants The Bay as long term investment Were not looking for shortterm profits Were looking at long term growth proposition Investment analysts said Thursday it was no surprise that an offer finally had surfaced after more than year of speculation in financial circles that someone would make bid for The Bay Analysts termed Ihomsons offer of silta share in cash good one that was likely to succeed unless another offer comes along lhomson chairman and president of Thomson Newspapers Ltd of Toronto called the takeover bid selfevident move becaue Hudsons Bay is remarkable company and very very anadian IIIIRIS tltll IIIIRII My family are totally Yanadian and our hearts are certainly here so dont know any better way toshow it than to do this Allen phoned aboutkflhng says Lorenz TORONTO ltPt The man charged with murdering Toronto lawyer Bruce Lorenz last March phoned Lorenz wife to tell her of the killing Lauralee Lorenz said Thursday Mrs Lorenz 33 told an Ontario Supreme Court jury that Gordon Allen was huffing and puffing when he called to say think just killed your husband Oh God Laura all the blood Three hours later Allen phoned again and asked if her husband had arrived home Mrs Lorenz said After the second conversation during which no mention was made Of her husbands death Mrs Lorenz said she was scared Bruce wasnt home yet didnt know what was going on she testified When police arrived several minutes later to tell her that her husband had been mur dered Mrs Lorenz said nothing about the calls didnt want to believe Gordon had done such thing she said was scared for my children and for my family Allen was charged with murder after Bruce Lorcnz body was found in parking lot Mrs Lorenz will continue her testimony on Monday 50 you have to stop for gas They ca bl L1 ignore high price of gasoline Well these two young ladies found solution to the high price of gasoline and good reason to miss day of school as temperatures turn ed mild this week Enioying their afternoon ride Thursday by gas station at Candles and St Vincent streets are Karen McDonald 16 left and Karen Jamieson l6 Ex aminer Photo by David Burcsik Jet fighterstanks involved Amins troops battle in barracks NAIROBI GP Fierce fighting involving jet planes and tanks broke out today at the barracks of the Tororo Battalion in eastern Uganda in an apparent battle between forces loyal to President Idi Amin and others oppos ed tohim Officials at Mbale Hospital 40 kilometres to the north said they had received an undetermined number of lead and wounded Residents said the fighting began about dawn and was continuing late this afternoon It started about it am Tororo resident said in telephone interview So far it has been confined to the barracks about iniles from town There are jet fighters flying overhead and tanks and armored personnel carriers in the town We dont know exactly what is going on by we can see the barracks burning iiiMm CQNSQME Not much Whats up with you inside today lifestyle ontortmnment latInes page sport oornlcstv gulde dasalflod 71 amplornentn Panorama 12 page Canadlan Tlro pages Some informants said it was mutiny within the 1000 men of the air and water borne battalion at Tororo tit kilometres west of the Kenyan border Others said force fought its way to Tororo from the area of Lake Victoria few kilometres to the south Either way the fighting posed what could be the gravest threat so far to the eightyear rule of Amin who in recent weeks of war against Iaiizaman invaders has had reported mutimcs the Suicide and Lion Battalions in the key southern towns of Masaka and Mbarara Tororo controls the road and rail routes from Kenya over which Uganda receives vir tually all its civilian and military supplies Ugandan exiles in Nairobi described the Tororo fighting as mutiny They said anti Amin soldiers removed weapons from the battalion armory and distributed them to civilians Military sources in Jinja near Kampala the Ugandan capital said Amin ordered troops from the Khaddafy barracks at Jinja to gotoTororo I20kilometres to the east But they said the Khaddafy units were blocked on the JinjaTororo road by antiAmin forces Ontario cant afford OHIP scheme doctor By lAlllA KRAlSIZ Of The Examiner Barrie doctor says the Ontario govern ment wants doctors to opt out of the Ontario Health Insurance Plan They tgovcrnment officials are not going to say it but Ive talked to Dennis Timbrell tmiiiister of health privately and it makes sense lheyve got to keep the lid on said Dr ltogertirecn Iheye got to find money because its just not there in taxes he told members of the Barrie local of the onsumers ssociation of tanada lhursday evening Dr Green says he is among the 40 per cent of Barrie doctors who have opted out of the governments health insurance plan With OIIIP premiums in Ontario covering only 23 per cent of actual health costs the province cant afford its health insurance scheme he says Alcohol abuse report denied WASIIINGION tAPt Billy arter has been admitted to Bethesda Naval Medical cntre in suburban Maryland and is expected to be transferred to private hospital later for treatment of alcohol abuse The Star reported today However the report was quickly denied by hospital spokesman and by Dr Paul Brown who has treated the presidents brother for respiratory illness in Georgia hospital it became obvious after we were in OIIIP for five years that in fact the predictions of the medical association were coming true He says Canadians have now become used to many unnecessary convenient health ser vices lm sure that if you gave everybody free credit card at Loblaws people would begin eating steaks every night The concept of cutting back for the good of the whole has not really got off the ground yet The government reduced the number of hospital beds and increased the waiting time in an attempt to cut back expenses he says Its true that this way certain number of operations prove unnecessary because some people will decide they dont want the operationand others will die Royal Victoria Hospital is the same size it was 10 years ago and there is no plan to ex pand it or build second hospital in Barrie and if we start planning right now its another 10 years away says Dr Green He says he does not know of any immediate solution for Canada Its political Its very hard to get across that we need an extra nurse and not helicopter Doctors fees have not increased as they should have he says Its my impression theyve gone up about 25 per cent since 1972 What the government is saying to doctors is If you want to keep your income with in flation you must see more patients can tell you when you sit in an office all day seeing patients its no damn fun five days week some nights and weekends